A Neighboring Life

Advice Column
We’ve been talking about neighboring for the last month and a half, so when I saw a headline in the paper this week that said: “Neighbor Needs to Take Responsibility for being Un-neighborly” it got my attention. It comes from the advice columnist Carolyn Hax:

The Worst Job Ever
When Beth and I were still in college, she needed a part-time job. She didn’t have a car, so she needed something within walking distance of campus. She was a full-time student, so she needed something in the evenings that didn’t interfere with her classes. So she ended up taking what is one of the most hated jobs in America—quite possibly the modern-day equivalent to a tax collector in Jesus’ day—she became a… telemarketer.

Gladys Zweifel
Elder Doug Siepkes and I went out Thursday to take communion to some members of our church who are not able to be at Sunday morning worship service. And one of the people we visited was Gladys Zweifel.

Stay, Pray, Play, and Say
Brian Mavis is a pastor from Colorado and one of the authors of the study we are currently using: The Neighboring Life. He tells a story about his desire to be a better dad. He says that he decided he needed a plan, and because he is a preacher, he decided to come up with words that rhyme in order to help him follow through.

Anybody know what product is being advertised? It’s actually a credit card. It’s part of a series of commercials based on the premise that people rarely say what they mean. But when this credit card says you get double cash back, it means it. Or something like that.